8th International Conference on
Functional Mapping of the Human Brain
 June 2 - 6,2002, Sendai, JAPAN
Tuesday, June 4 PM

14:00-14:30
Keynote Lecture

Hundred years of the angular gyrus and neurological mechanism of reading
Atsushi Yamadori, MD, PhD
Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
 After 111 years since the first suggestion of the importance of the angular gyrus by Dejerine (1891) and 37 years since the re-emphasis by Geshwind (1965), the role of this gyrus in reading still remains controversial. While many neurologists regard this area as essential in the cognitive flow of reading, some cast serious doubt to this view. Many of recent neuroimagnig studies dealing with reading tasks have failed to activate the angular gyrus. How these inconsistencies can be reconciled?


14:30-16:00
Oral Session: Language
Chair: S. Cappa

 The Functional Neuroanatomy of Reading Acquisition
Peter Turkeltaub, Lynn Gareau, Lynn Flowers, Thomas Zeffiro, Guinevere Eden
Center for the Study of Learning, Georgetown University Medical Center; Wake Forest University School of Medicine
(Pos.No.:10226 Abs.No.:15519)

Categorical Perception of Auditory Stimuli: An fMRI Study
Fatima Husain, Stephen Fromm, Randall Pursley, Lara Hosey, Allen Braun, Barry Horwitz
Language Section, NIDCD, NIH, CBEL, CIT, NIH
(Pos.No.:10066 Abs.No.:14333)

The Time Course of Semantic and Phonological Activation in Reading Chinese: Evidence from an ERP Study
Mowei Shen, Qing Xu, Rende Shui, Wutian Zhang, Xuchu Weng, Wenbing Gao, Yuejia LUO, Xiaolin Zhou
Department of Psychology and Behavior Science, Zhejiang University, Laboratory for Higher Brain Function, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Department of Psychology, Peking University
(Pos.No.:10190 Abs.No.:15340)

Mirror Neuron System Activity and Audiovisual Speech Perception
Daniel Callan, Jeffery Jones, Kevin Munhall, Christian Kroos, Akiko Callan, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson
Human Information Science Laboratories, Brain Activity Imaging Center, ATR-I, Department of Psychology
(Pos.No.:10056 Abs.No.:14228)

Modulation of Cortical Areas with Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Improve Naming in Nonfluent Aphasia
Margaret Naesser, Theoret Hugo, Masahito Kobayashi, Paula Martin, Marjorie Nicholas, Errol Baker, Alvaro Pascual-Leone
VA Boston Healthcare System, Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Laboratory for Magnetic Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medcial Center, Harvard Medical School
(Pos.No.:10072 Abs.No.:14365)

BRAIN REORGANIZATION IN BROCA'S APHASIA: A LONGITUDINAL fMRI STUDY
Maurizio Corbetta, Valeria Blasi, Alexis Young, Fran Tucker, Aaron Tansy, Steven Petersen, Avi Snyder
Washington University School of Medicine, Neuroradiology Ist.Scientifico HSR, Southwestern Illinois University
(Pos.No.:10238 Abs.No.:15572)

Bilateral grey matter abnormalities in a family with a mutation in FOXP2
Emma Belton, Claire Salmond, Kate Watkins, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, David Gadian
Institute of Child Health, Montreal Neurological Institute
(Pos.No.:10144 Abs.No.:14862)


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